I sent you a pm but not sure if you got it. Ive measured those jap mag wheels of mine at 7 by 13 inside lip to lip. Or 7.5 on the outside lips. If you pm me with your email I will send you some photos
When I first started researching the car I found a few mentions of it being 1275 S powered such as this from C&CC in early '67 :
But actually they were quite misleading , speculative really because another report in C&CC reports the car to be 1143cc when bought from Janspeed by Harvey (I'll post up later) and is in the up to 1150cc class in both races I've found in Motoring News with Mabbs at the wheel in 1967 (more to find) plus when Goodman ran it in 1968 it was always in the 1150cc class so it looks like it always ran a 1071 engine and that's what's going back in the car.
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I don't think so Jens.
I've contacted Buncombe (standing far left) through a kind member of this board (Fred !) so hope to get his memories of the car. Buncomb's own racer at this time was tuned by Planet who I've got a nice piece about for the main site.
Incidentally Jonathan Buncombe is still very much into his Minis !
Thanks to Jens passing the contact details along I had a nice chat with ex Janspeed Simon Lee. Simon explained that the Leo Mtra name on the side of the car was the name of a local paint sprayer who painted the car (yes that is a paint brush next to his name ). According to Simon the white car pictured at Combe with Mabbs and Odor didn't belong to Janspeed and is nothing to do with my car as I suspected because initially I didn't the competition Unipowers (of which I understand about four were built) were not converted standard cars, I think they were built from scratch with entirely separate moulds. The engine , Simon thinks , would have been built by Janspeed's Norman Clancy, Jan Odor's favoured unit was the 1071 and that the front air dam was indeed pretty ground breaking and fabricated by a local firm in Salisbury. The engine indeed did run a 45 Weber as it still does.
Yes that's them Graham, they had to change their name (to 'Netlap') though because there were too many businesses called 'Planet' at the time. I'll post up an article all about them later on a seperate thread.
